Establishing safety and risk management policies and programs for the vehicles in your fleet is another way to protect your company’s financial investments.
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FINALLY, FG, LASG MOVE TO SAVE MARINE BEACH BRIDGE, ALTERNATIVE ROUTES LISTED
The Federal and Lagos State Governments Friday disclosed plan to save Marine Beach Bridge (Apapa-Ijora Bridge), which connects Apapa Central Business District (CBD) to Lagos Island and Lagos-Ibadan expressway via Ikorodu road. Before they unveiled the new intervention, a portion of the bridge had caved in, thus putting its structural integrity to question and causing intractable gridlocks that often paralysed […]
Continue reading »FG PARTIALLY SHUTS DOWN APAPA-IJORA BRIDGE, ENGINEERING DRAWINGS MISSING
The Federal Government yesterday shutdown the Apapa-Ijora Bridge in Lagos to outward bound traffic for quick rehabilitation, even as it admitted that the engineering drawings for the bridge constructed in the 1970s, are missing. THISDAY had raised the red flag last week over the extreme deterioration of the bridge, which has massive holes that have exposed the steel rods supporting […]
Continue reading »WHEN BERGER SUYA FAILS: REMAN TO THE RESCUE! (Part Two)
Difference between Reman and Used Parts Reman from Remanufacturing Companies are completely disassembled, cleaned, rebuilt to oftentimes better than factory specifications, and fully tested to make certain they will perform like new, or better. On the hand, Used Spares even from relatively new trucks are usually from wrecked or damaged or sometimes over-used vehicles and the condition of these parts […]
Continue reading »Carnage on Our Roads: Understanding WHY Truck Brakes Fail and WHAT to Do to Curb It. (Part Four)
Inspecting Combination Vehicles – Truck & Trailers A truck and trailer combination has more things to inspect than a single vehicle. Check the following during a walk-around inspection of a truck and trailer combination in addition to the items described above for the truck alone: Check the coupling system areas: Check the air and electric lines to the trailer. Be […]
Continue reading »Carnage on Our Roads: Understanding WHY Truck Brakes Fail and WHAT to Do to Curb It. (Part Three)
GUIDING AGAINST BRAKE FAILURE Managing Truck, Trailer and Load Control your speed whether fully loaded or empty. Empty, large combination vehicles take longer to stop than fully loaded ones. A truck with a trailer is usually heavier, larger, and requires more driving skill than a truck by itself. Thus, drivers required to tow a trailer need more knowledge and skill […]
Continue reading »Carnage on Our Roads: Understanding WHY Truck Brakes Fail and WHAT to Do to Curb It. (Part Two)
WHY BRAKES FAIL: Brake Imbalance A brake performance problem that probably account for most accidents involving brake failure is brake imbalance, which can be caused by deficiencies that affect some of the brakes in the system but not others. Brake imbalance can also happen by having mismatched brake system components that cause some brakes to work harder than others. Brake […]
Continue reading »Carnage on Our Roads: Understanding WHY Truck Brakes Fail and WHAT to Do to Curb It. (Part One)
Over the past few days, two major accidents involving trucks occupied the front pages of the mainstream media. Both accidents resulted in substantial fatalities! In both cases too, the mainstream media reported that the trucks’ brakes had failed. In the accident that occurred at Oshodi, a tipper loaded with sand and said to belong to a Pentecostal church was reported […]
Continue reading »Preventive maintenance checklist for Trucks (Part One)
Prevention is better than cure….so says a popular idiom! This idiom couldn’t be truer in the context of the haulage services industry. Cure or Corrective Maintenance, as in the case of waiting for the disaster to hit and then seeking for palliative measures can be very costly, destabilizing, frustrating, time consuming and energy-sapping. Prevention obviously seems to be a better […]
Continue reading »Prevention maintenance checklist for Trucks (Part Two)
EXTERNAL PHYSICAL INSPECTION Front sheet metal, paint and bumper – Inspect for appearance/accident. Front lights and directional signals – Inspect. Left front tyre – Inspect for cuts or unusual wear, torque wheel nuts. Left-hand side of cab – Inspect for appearance and condition. Left-side door hinges and latch – Lubricate, adjust if necessary. Window regulators and vents – Test […]
Continue reading »How you can get your tyre to serve you BETTER!
Picture this: A fully loaded truck left your base somewhere in the Ikorodu axis of Lagos with a cargo scheduled for delivery somewhere in Maiduguri. Three days later just before lunch, you got a call from your Fleet Manager that the Driver lost two tractor tyres in transit…..and wait for this; the tyres were bought new just a day before […]
Continue reading »Strategic Fuel Management (Part Two)
RESPONSIBLE DRIVING CULTURE In addition to tweaking the fundamental requirements of a haulage business in the area of fleet selection and matching within moderately permissible level, the next best strategy will be to modify the drivers’ behavior towards a more sustainable fuel-efficient eco-sensitive culture. This must be a top priority. The way employees drive their vehicles can either increase or […]
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